Investigators believe they have identified a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing from security video and an official statement was expected later in the day, a law enforcement source said on Wednesday.

However, no arrest had been made, three separate government and law enforcement sources told Reuters.

Police may make an appeal to the public for more information at a news conference scheduled for later on Wednesday, a government source said.

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Earlier, CNN reported that a suspect was in custody, citing law enforcement sources. But then the network cited three sources who said no one was under arrest after all.

The identification of a possible suspect marked the most significant publicly disclosed break since Monday’s blast at the marathon finish line killed three people and injured 176 others.

Investigators were also searching through thousands of pieces of evidence from cell phone pictures to shrapnel shards pulled from victims’ legs.

Based on shards of metal, fabric, wires and a battery recovered at the scene, the focus turned to whoever may have made bombs in pressure cooker pots and taken them in heavy black nylon bags to the finish line of the world-famous race watched by crowds of spectators.

A stretch of Boston’s Boylston Street almost a mile long and blocks around it remained closed as investigators searched for clues in the worst attack on U.S. soil since the hijacked plane strikes of September 11, 2001.

Cities across the United States were on edge after Monday’s blasts in Boston. Adding to the nervousness was the announcement that mail containing a suspicious substance addressed to a lawmaker and to President Barack Obama. The FBI said, however, that agents had found no link the attack in Boston.

The blasts at the finish line of Monday’s race injured 176 people and killed three: an 8-year old boy, Martin Richard, a 29-year-old woman, Krystle Campbell and a Boston University graduate student who was a Chinese citizen.

Boston University identified the student as Lu Lingzi.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

“Whether it’s homegrown, or foreign, we just don’t know yet. And so I’m not going to contribute to any speculation on that,” said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who until January was Massachusetts’ senior senator. “It’s just hard to believe that a Patriots’ Day holiday, which is normally such time of festivities, turned into bloody mayhem.”

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A prominent political activist is among five persons taken into custody, in connection with, the robbery of the Swiss Stores in downtown Kingston last week.

The five were arrested by members of the police Flying Squad working with other elite police units.

During a two-day operation in St Thomas, St Catherine and the Corporate Area the police recovered 16 of the 23 watches which were stolen.

The other seven watches had been already recovered by the investigators.

The police also seized US$150,000; J$500,000; two licensed shot guns; one illegal firearm; and a quantity of ammunition.

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Banners and bunting were hung in Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire, in protest at her policies, as mourners gathered for the funeral at St Paul’s Cathedral.

A horse-drawn, open coffin housing an effigy of the ex-prime minister was paraded through the village.

The effigy was set on fire on waste ground at around 15:15 BST and fireworks let off.

Heather Hopwood, landlady of the Rusty Dudley, in Goldthorpe, near Barnsley, said the village had “died” since the pit closure in 1994.

‘For burning’
She said: “It was a brilliant community, it was really busy, but now everything has gone dead because no-one has got any money, there’s no jobs.”

The effigy was put up outside the Union Jack social club with signs reading: “Thatcher the milk snatcher” and “Thatcher the scab”.

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James Vincent
BBC Sheffield political reporter
Walking down the High Street people tell me that today’s celebrations are either “a great idea” or “disgusting” but it seems there are plenty here to, if not celebrate, at least mark the death of the prime minister that had a huge effect on South Yorkshire.

Everyone in the village is talking about it; one man stops to say that “we’re paying for her funeral so we can do what we like…. no-one liked her”.

But there was an opposing view from a woman carrying her shopping away from the protest: “I just couldn’t do that to anybody, what’s done is done. Things move on.”

Thatcher’s policies have been described as divisive. Nationally, her funeral has been as well.

One property in the town displayed a huge sign saying: “The Lady’s not for turning but tonight she’ll be for burning.”

Outside the Rusty Dudley, homemade banners were erected saying: “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, Thatcher’s Britain has gone bust” and “That’s another fine mess you’ve got us into Maggie”.

In November 1984, two teenage brothers were killed in Goldthorpe while collecting coal during the Miners’ Strike when an embankment collapsed.

A memorial to Paul Holmes, 15, and Darren, 14, showing a map of Yorkshire with a miner on each side was put up in 2011.

However, the parade has not attracted the support of all of Goldthorpe’s residents.

Caroline Woodcock said: “I agree completely what she did was wrong – closing the steel works, the pits – but this is a person and she’s got a right to a peaceful funeral.”

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